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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By : Padma Priya Chitturi
Book Image

Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By: Padma Priya Chitturi

Overview of this book

Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy. Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease. This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning. You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more. These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Implementing Naive Bayes' classification


Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier based on the Bayes theorem. This classifier is capable of calculating the most probable output depending on the input. It is possible to add new raw data at runtime and have a better probabilistic classifier. The Naive Bayes model is typically used for classification. There will be a bunch of features X1, X2,....Xn observed for an instance. The goal is to infer to which class among the limited set of classes the particular instance belongs. This model makes the assumption that every pair of features Xi and Xj is conditionally independent given the class. This classifier is a sub-class of Bayesian networks. For more information about the classifier, please refer to http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/naive-bayes-classifier.

This recipe shows how to run the Naive Bayes classifier on the weather dataset using the Naive Bayes classifier algorithm available in the Spark MLlib package. The code is written in...